Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
"Carotid Intima-Media Thickness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A measurement of the thickness of the carotid artery walls. It is measured by B-mode ULTRASONOGRAPHY and is used as a surrogate marker for ATHEROSCLEROSIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D059168
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.350.850.150 E01.370.370.180 G09.330.210
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carotid Intima-Media Thickness" by people in Profiles.
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Cardiometabolic disease risk factors in pre- and postmenopausal women from four sub-Saharan African countries: A cross-sectional study. Maturitas. 2023 Jun; 172:60-68.
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Are cardiovascular health measures heritable across three generations of families in Soweto, South Africa? A cross-sectional analysis using the random family method. BMJ Open. 2022 09 23; 12(9):e059910.
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Common Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 08 02; 11(15):e023704.
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Influence of shift work on cardiovascular disease risk in Southern African long-distance truck drivers: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2022 04 13; 12(4):e050645.
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Carotid Atherosclerosis, Microalbuminuria, and Estimated 10-Year Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Apr 01; 5(4):e227559.
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Genetic associations with carotid intima-media thickness link to atherosclerosis with sex-specific effects in sub-Saharan Africans. Nat Commun. 2022 02 14; 13(1):855.
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Relations of aortic stiffness with arterial damage beyond brachial pressure are both dependent and independent of central arterial pulsatile load. J Hypertens. 2021 04 01; 39(4):718-728.
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Adiposity Phenotypes and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Adults from Sub-Saharan Africa: An H3Africa AWI-Gen Study. Glob Heart. 2021 03 19; 16(1):19.
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Poor cardiovascular health is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in apparently healthy sub-Saharan African populations: an H3Africa AWI-Gen study. BMC Med. 2021 02 10; 19(1):30.
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Association of chronic inflammation and accelerated atherosclerosis among an indigenous black population with chronic kidney disease. PLoS One. 2020; 15(7):e0232741.